चित्तादिमानि सुखदुःखशतानि नून- मभ्यागतान्यगवरादिव काननानि । तस्मिन् विवेकवशतस्तनुतां प्रयाते मन्ये मुने निपुणमेव गलन्ति तानि ॥ २६ ॥
cittādimāni sukhaduḥkhaśatāni nūna- mabhyāgatānyagavarādiva kānanāni | tasmin vivēkavaśatastanutāṁ prayātē manyē munē nipuṇamēva galanti tāni || 26 ||
Translation
From the mind, surely, have come these hundreds of joys and sorrows, as forests from a great mountain. When it grows thin through discrimination, I think, O sage, they melt away for certain.
Word by word
- cittād
- (cittāt) from the mind
- imāni
- these
- sukha
- joys
- duḥkha
- and sorrows
- śatāni
- hundreds of
- nūnam
- surely
- abhyāgatāni
- have come
- aga
- mountain
- varād
- (varāt) from a great
- iva
- as
- kānanāni
- forests
- tasmin
- when it
- vivēka
- of discrimination
- vaśatas
- (vaśataḥ) through
- tanutāṁ
- thin
- prayātē
- grows
- manyē
- I think
- munē
- O sage
- nipuṇam
- for certain
- ēva
- indeed
- galanti
- melt away
- tāni
- they
Meaning
The sarga closes in two longer verses. This one is in vasantatilakā (fourteen syllables a pāda). Joys and sorrows grow from the mind as forests grow on a mountain: the mountain does not plant them; they are its outgrowth. And there is a way: when the mind "grows thin" (tanutāṃ prayāte) through viveka, discrimination, they "melt away" (galanti), not destroyed but dissolving, like snow. Rāma says "I think" (manye): he has reasoned it out and believes it, but does not yet know it from within. The reader is given hope and a direction: not to fight joys and sorrows one by one, but to thin the mind they grow from.